turkish republic of northern cyprus ( Archived) (26)

Hoi Don

dont you just looooove history?

Thank you very much for such an informative reply.Just glancing through there are some detailed and precis facts.This will be my wekend reading,and will reply after the weekend
One or two quick remarks

Cypriots,from the North or South,My experience is obviously in the North.Please please let me meet and become friends with Southerners<We are all God's creatures>
You are correct about the settlers from the mainland.Butthat is another matter.
You are assuming The results of the just started talks,about Turkish troops in the North.This is a major point of discussion.
The North is not recognised by any country but Turkey and is it Azerbahjan?....it is not part of the EEC.
Because the French are not happy to have Muslims in their "Christian"club.
I will give a more detailed reply Monday.

I trend to differ....

the biggest drawback on Turkey joining in on the EU is it's record in the field of Human Rights.....

i'm glad you decided to look a bit more into this, since you are moving there soon!

some things though, you'll find like this in some books, like that in others; because even books serve purposes - depending on where/by whom they were written.

But some things, are simple facts: Greece, under imposed dictatorship rule, tried to take control of the island in 1974. That served as a long-awaited calling for Turkey to intervene and seize control of almost half the island. It's excuse was that since Greece threw a coop, someone had to re-institute the constitutional order in the island.

But that was 34 years ago, and while perhaps some of us might have fallen for it back then, there is no excuse today for Turkey to have a part of the European Union unter military occupation!!

And trust me on this: The turkish-cypriots have suffered much more from this situation with the turk's occupation than anyone else and they are the first that want them gone for good!